Legal Opinion
ABC, INC. v. PrimeTime 24, Joint Venture
District Court, M.D. North Carolina
Decided August 19, 1998No. 1:06-m-00067PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
BULLOCK, Chief Judge.
This case is currently before the court on the motion by Plaintiff ABC, Inc. (“ABC”) for summary judgment. In a memorandum opinion issued July 16, 1998, this court found that no reasonable fact finder could fail to find that Defendant PrimeTime 24 (“Prime-Time”) is infringing upon ABC’s copyright in its network programming by exceeding the scope of its compulsory license under the Satellite Home Viewer Act (“SHVA”), 17 U.S.C. § 119, that PrimeTime has engaged in a pattern or practice of willful or repeated copyright infringement by exceeding the scope of…
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